Jack Low
Staff Engineer at SEEK
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJack Low is a Staff Engineer with 11 years’ experience building high-performance, real-time data streaming and cloud-native systems using Scala, Java, and Python across AWS and Kubernetes. He has led the design of resilient live-streaming platforms and complex distributed systems at companies like Zendesk and REA Group, and now drives platform work at SEEK from Melbourne. Jack is a strong advocate for testing, observability, and collaborative development—promoting pair/mob programming and SLO-driven improvements informed by Datadog metrics. He also invests in developer enablement, authoring and delivering two Scala courses to hundreds of engineers and presenting at YOW Data, which helped accelerate data-science-to-production workflows. Notably, he turned data scientist workflows from months into hours by building configuration-driven SQL orchestration, showing a knack for pragmatic automation as well as deep systems thinking.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (156)
python10
monad-transformers10
extensible10
modular10
scheduler10
lambda9
sbt-plugin9
testing9
automation9
mlops9
etl9
effects9
http-client9
orchestration9
tagless-final9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wjlow/intro-to-scala
Feb 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 102 commits, 197 PRs in 3 years 11 months
wjlow/blog
Oct 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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